Hi Joerg, Joerg Schilling wrote on Sat, Oct 12 2002:
>The fact that Linux does not use DMA with ATAPI has ben reported by >may people! For example in the Linux Kernel Mailing List, and one would assume, that those guys know what's going on. >In addition, it may be that Linux does not report the load correctly >when doing PIO to the drive. This (sadly) is another issue, when using e.g. "top", one should *not* look at the CPU-consumption of cdrecord, but have a look at the "idle" time. You will find, that cdrecord e.g. uses 5% resources, the other tasks maybe another 5%, but that idle-time (should be around 90% in this example) is only 10% or less. Meaning: the ressources shown in "top" do not add up when the kernel falls back to PIO mode. It's quite easy to get confused about the real ressources-consumption, when just watching the processes and/or system/user times. Again: the idle time is important. Kind regards Frederick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
